Triple

T19306898
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir David Gill E482855 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope | Statement: [Sir David Gill, positionHeld, Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope
Context triple: [Sir David Gill, positionHeld, Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope]
  • A. The Astronomer
    "The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
  • B. Historia Coelestis Britannica
    Historia Coelestis Britannica is a landmark star catalog compiled in the early 18th century that systematically recorded the positions of thousands of stars and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
  • C. Institutio astronomica
    Institutio astronomica is a 17th-century introductory astronomy textbook by Pierre Gassendi that helped popularize and systematize contemporary astronomical knowledge in a humanist, educational format.
  • D. Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed
    Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed is a biographical and historical study of England’s first Astronomer Royal, written by Francis Baily and notable for its detailed reconstruction of Flamsteed’s life, work, and conflicts within the early Royal Observatory.
  • E. La révolution astronomique
    La révolution astronomique is a seminal historical study by Alexandre Koyré that analyzes the profound conceptual and philosophical transformations brought about by the Scientific Revolution in astronomy.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope
Target entity description: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope was a senior British colonial astronomical post responsible for directing major observational and surveying work from the Royal Observatory at the Cape in South Africa.
  • A. The Astronomer
    "The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
  • B. Historia Coelestis Britannica
    Historia Coelestis Britannica is a landmark star catalog compiled in the early 18th century that systematically recorded the positions of thousands of stars and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
  • C. Institutio astronomica
    Institutio astronomica is a 17th-century introductory astronomy textbook by Pierre Gassendi that helped popularize and systematize contemporary astronomical knowledge in a humanist, educational format.
  • D. Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed
    Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed is a biographical and historical study of England’s first Astronomer Royal, written by Francis Baily and notable for its detailed reconstruction of Flamsteed’s life, work, and conflicts within the early Royal Observatory.
  • E. La révolution astronomique
    La révolution astronomique is a seminal historical study by Alexandre Koyré that analyzes the profound conceptual and philosophical transformations brought about by the Scientific Revolution in astronomy.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8e8d04d5c8190baa816986f2b1d1e completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e604ca81e88190a276064f5f8dfd3a completed April 20, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m.